It's also very important to encrypt your swap space -- just think of all the crypto keys, passwords, etc. that are stored in memory. It's much easier to be sure you've secured those if you know they're being swapped to a partition that's initialized with a new random key each time the system boots.
Really, though, it's not even that difficult to encrypt the root filesystem. The new Etch installer has this built in, and if I'm not mistaken, Vista will too.
I'm not sure what use all those software packages are that are linked on the submitter's home page.
Ring tones are nothing new musically; they are merely a more ubiquitous form of what's been played in clock towers for hundreds of years. To be able to make a memorable musical statement in the space of 10-20 seconds is a significant accomplishment.
additionally, it appears that the concentration of open source balloons on his map is much higher on the east coast of the united states than the bay area -- or the entire west coast. i'm not sure what the summary is getting at here, but it sounds like someone's just trying to drum up adsense hits.
I think what he's getting at -- which is a pretty apt comparison -- is that people who engage in piracy with the intention of "sticking it" to the industry are 1. a decentralized group, who are 2. highly polarized against their enemy, and 3. would be very difficult, if not impossible, to hunt down and stop.
I don't think anyone is saying that Hezbollah are admirable. I think the point here is that there is a group who are not simply not going away, no matter how wrong you think they are or how many of them you try to take out.
The tactics adopted by the U.S. vis-a-vis terrorist groups and those used by the MPAA are pretty similar. They seem to believe that it's possible to crush a movement simply by persuading enough people that it's wrong or pursuing people associated with it. Both of those tactics are woefully hilarious when compared to the actual results that they're intended to achieve.
Prior to recorded medium, people would have had to travel to the estate of a patron or to a local tavern to pay to listen to music there.
and those are still the musical experiences i enjoy the most.
we don't need a recording industry and people going on world tours to play in stadiums to hear great music anymore. musicians aren't going to stop playing, parents aren't going to stop sending their kids to piano lessons, and the concert halls of this world are not going to go silent. anyone with a computer and a microphone can record a song, and it'll cost them less to make a copy for whoever wants one than it would to buy an old trombone.
You are using all the right slashdot buzzwords aren't you? Way to go. Unfortunately, you don't have a fucking clue about business in general let alone the music business.
It sounds like you make your "living" in the music "business". That is to say, you're a parasite, sucking blood from creative people until you move on to a new host. Thankfully, nature has generally supplied a fitting orifice for your kind to exit through.
There was music before Edison had a state-enforced monopoly on the phonograph. There was music before these bags of shit developed payola, 120+ year copyright, and digital rights management. And there will be music after the recording industry lays in a pile of rubble.
Learn to deal with it, or get the fuck out of the way.
The DRM industry have been flogging that "standard def is going away!!!" crap for a decade now. Every time the deadline approaches, it's pushed back. At this rate, it'd be a fool's bet to think that NTSC is ever going away.
Not quite. We should pay musicians for playing music. The RIAA are an obstruction not only to listeners but to musicians as well.
By erecting a monopoly of purchased legislation and scorched-earth domination of distribution channels, the RIAA have all but choked off the last remaining avenues for musicians to earn a living except by dealing with a corrupt, greedy price-fixing conspiracy of people who would scarcely know A major from their own assholes.
Music is a valuable part of our culture, and the RIAA have done their best to turn it into an easily manipulated commodity, dictating to listeners and musicians who we get to hear, what words they can use, how they dress, and in many cases, who they're allowed to collaborate with.
Running a few 30-second television and radio spots and arranging shows at venues controlled by their co-conspirators does not offset their astounding assault on our musical heritage.
And that particular appeal is soundly crushed by the unbearable DRM risk, the pointless aspect ratio change, the high equipment cost, and the beyond-garbage color reproduction on current panel displays.
The situation on Windows is completely different. Microsoft is retrofitting Windows with this security model, but it must still support the vast catalog of existing software that was written assuming the traditional Windows security model.
Yeah, supporting older applications would be a pain in the ass if your users expect to be able to use the exact same ancient binary image they were using before your OS was conceived. When you willingly give up your right to the source code of the software you use, you're giving up quite a lot.
Until Microsoft finally stands up to its lazy, demanding users and says "enough is enough! take your 8-year-old binary image and shove it!", Windows will forever be a hackneyed patch job of backward compatibility workarounds and security problems.
There are plenty of examples of creative work that was a dud on initial release, but became a cult favorite a decade later...
One notable example of this is It's a Wonderful Life, which went from a 1946 flop to a holiday favorite -- because its copyright expired and it passed into the public domain.
I think that until the Linux crowd changes there mindset that every app MUST be open source that we will continue to be viewed as a small techie subset of society.
ok. works for me.
Instead, let's embrace the power of open source, including Linux, and allow companies to build proprietary apps to run on top of the OS in order to give an overall better user experience, therefore allowing Linux into the mainstream.
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Really, though, it's not even that difficult to encrypt the root filesystem. The new Etch installer has this built in, and if I'm not mistaken, Vista will too.
I'm not sure what use all those software packages are that are linked on the submitter's home page.
all i can think of is douglas quaid ripping the head off the johnnycab.
Don't make life more complicated than it has to be.
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Ring tones are nothing new musically; they are merely a more ubiquitous form of what's been played in clock towers for hundreds of years. To be able to make a memorable musical statement in the space of 10-20 seconds is a significant accomplishment.
additionally, it appears that the concentration of open source balloons on his map is much higher on the east coast of the united states than the bay area -- or the entire west coast. i'm not sure what the summary is getting at here, but it sounds like someone's just trying to drum up adsense hits.
it would only stop the least technically inclined users, unless the BPI is going to set up a China-grade firewall around *.uk.
They were down at around 11pm Eastern on Saturday. I don't think this is the Slashdot effect.
A patent on a music player navigation menu?!
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it's a photograph. it's a photo if you're capturing photons.
I don't think anyone is saying that Hezbollah are admirable. I think the point here is that there is a group who are not simply not going away, no matter how wrong you think they are or how many of them you try to take out.
The tactics adopted by the U.S. vis-a-vis terrorist groups and those used by the MPAA are pretty similar. They seem to believe that it's possible to crush a movement simply by persuading enough people that it's wrong or pursuing people associated with it. Both of those tactics are woefully hilarious when compared to the actual results that they're intended to achieve.
and those are still the musical experiences i enjoy the most.
we don't need a recording industry and people going on world tours to play in stadiums to hear great music anymore. musicians aren't going to stop playing, parents aren't going to stop sending their kids to piano lessons, and the concert halls of this world are not going to go silent. anyone with a computer and a microphone can record a song, and it'll cost them less to make a copy for whoever wants one than it would to buy an old trombone.
it's gonna be great.
It sounds like you make your "living" in the music "business". That is to say, you're a parasite, sucking blood from creative people until you move on to a new host. Thankfully, nature has generally supplied a fitting orifice for your kind to exit through.
There was music before Edison had a state-enforced monopoly on the phonograph. There was music before these bags of shit developed payola, 120+ year copyright, and digital rights management. And there will be music after the recording industry lays in a pile of rubble.
Learn to deal with it, or get the fuck out of the way.
The DRM industry have been flogging that "standard def is going away!!!" crap for a decade now. Every time the deadline approaches, it's pushed back. At this rate, it'd be a fool's bet to think that NTSC is ever going away.
By erecting a monopoly of purchased legislation and scorched-earth domination of distribution channels, the RIAA have all but choked off the last remaining avenues for musicians to earn a living except by dealing with a corrupt, greedy price-fixing conspiracy of people who would scarcely know A major from their own assholes.
Music is a valuable part of our culture, and the RIAA have done their best to turn it into an easily manipulated commodity, dictating to listeners and musicians who we get to hear, what words they can use, how they dress, and in many cases, who they're allowed to collaborate with.
Running a few 30-second television and radio spots and arranging shows at venues controlled by their co-conspirators does not offset their astounding assault on our musical heritage.
And that particular appeal is soundly crushed by the unbearable DRM risk, the pointless aspect ratio change, the high equipment cost, and the beyond-garbage color reproduction on current panel displays.
Indeed. Somebody please call the Waaaaahmbulance
So it's even more deafening than the last revision. Great. I'll stick with my quiet Logitech keyboard, thanks.
Yeah, supporting older applications would be a pain in the ass if your users expect to be able to use the exact same ancient binary image they were using before your OS was conceived. When you willingly give up your right to the source code of the software you use, you're giving up quite a lot.
Until Microsoft finally stands up to its lazy, demanding users and says "enough is enough! take your 8-year-old binary image and shove it!", Windows will forever be a hackneyed patch job of backward compatibility workarounds and security problems.
There's nothing like a clean start.
Well, considering it's most likely a one-time pad, I'm going to have to say no.
One notable example of this is It's a Wonderful Life, which went from a 1946 flop to a holiday favorite -- because its copyright expired and it passed into the public domain.
Copyright is an obstruction to these works.
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That depends. How much CPU will you have left over after drawing those Aero window frames?
ok. works for me.
Instead, let's embrace the power of open source, including Linux, and allow companies to build proprietary apps to run on top of the OS in order to give an overall better user experience, therefore allowing Linux into the mainstream.
hmmm. no thanks. I like it just fine as it is.